So, for $40 I can make my gorgeous, elegant new iPhone 5s as ugly as a 5C? I'm sorry, but those cases look absolutely terrible. I was actually pretty excited a

So, for $40 I can make my gorgeous, elegant new iPhone 5s as ugly as a 5C? I'm sorry, but those cases look absolutely terrible. I was actually pretty excited about the prospect of an affordable iPhone, but it appears that the 5C, which is essentially an iPhone 5 that's cheaper to produce, is still going to cost at least $400-500 without a contract. There simply isn't $400 worth of technology in the iPhone 5C. Edit: It's even worse than I expected. The 5C is available unlocked for $549 only through T-Mobile. At $649, the 5S is a reasonably priced luxury, but at just $100 less, the 5C is a ripoff. It's disingenuous to pretend that a phone is cheap because it's $100 on-contract. If I signed that contract the phone would cost me $1300 more than what I pay using a Galaxy Nexus on the same towers that AT&T subscribers use. So basically, Apple is telling consumers that an ugly lump of plastic and glass containing last year's technology is worth more than a 13" Macbook Air 2013.